During the twentieth century, an increasingly dense web of political relationships, economic transactions, and cultural influences cut across the world's many peoples, countries, and regions, binding them more tightly, but also more contentiously, together. By the 1990s, this process of accelerating engagement among distant peoples was widely known as globalization.
Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World: A Global History pgs. 723-724.
GLOBALIZATION
[[image:file/view/globalization.jpg align="left"]]WHAT IS IT?
During the twentieth century, an increasingly dense web of political relationships, economic transactions, and cultural influences cut across the world's many peoples, countries, and regions, binding them more tightly, but also more contentiously, together. By the 1990s, this process of accelerating engagement among distant peoples was widely known as globalization.
Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World: A Global History pgs. 723-724.
WHERE DO WE SEE IT?
Tweeting in Egypt
Censoring GoogleHow flat is the world?
General Resources from the IMF
HOW DOES IT (or will it) IMACT ME?
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